On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 02:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:> Ask your legal counsel, and I strongly suspect that if he is any good, he> will tell you the same thing. Namely that it's _his_ problem, and that> your engineers should not waste their time trying to find existing> patents.

Wasn't a case of wasting time. That one is extremely well known becausethere were upset people when SGI patented it and then submitted a usenixpaper on it.